Tom Hiddleston as Loki. | Image: Marvel Studios / Disney Plus It’s been two long years since Marvel’s Loki series first crash-landed on Disney Plus to upend MCU’s carefully crafted timeline, and now, we finally know when the show’s second season will drop. Marvel’s Kevin Feige didn’t really have all that much to share in
Read MoreGoogle may have arrived late to the foldable party, but it looks to have been worth the wait. The Google Pixel Fold was announced at Google I/O last week and it appears to be a polished, if pricey, new challenger to the Galaxy Z Fold 4’s foldable crown. For those wondering how to get their
Read MoreImage: Latch Just a day after we found out Ring co-founder Jamie Siminoff was leaving Amazon and Ring altogether, it seems he will become CEO of enterprise smart home company Latch after it buys Honest Day’s Work (HDW), a little-known business Siminoff appears to have founded about four months ago. The interim CEO, Jason Keyes,
Read MoreHarrison Ford as Indiana Jones. | Image: Paramount The first four Indiana Jones movies haven’t been available on Disney Plus in the past, thanks to an agreement between Disney and Paramount that split distribution rights between the two studios. Previously, you had to head over to Paramount Plus if you wanted to get an Indy
Read MoreSurprising nobody, Verizon comes out ahead yet again. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Hey, did you hear? Verizon has incredibly, out of the goodness of its heart, revealed new phone plans that don’t include “bloated” service bundles. How thoughtful! There’s just one catch: they’re kinda less expensive, except not really, because things
Read MoreBlizzard Overwatch 2’s long-awaited hero missions PvE mode is no more. In a developer livestream, game director Aaron Keller said that the team is canceling the game’s PvE-based hero missions in favor of continuing on with seasonal, story-focused events. When Blizzard first announced Overwatch 2, the developers teased that the game would have two PvE
Read MoreBloomberg: Meta has started refunding advertisers for a glitch in April that caused campaigns to overspend; smaller advertisers say the refund process is slower for them — Meta Platforms Inc. has started refunding advertisers’ money for a major glitch last month that caused businesses to significantly overspend …
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Today, we’re mixing it up a bit. First off, I have a post-Podcast Upfronts Q&A I conducted with SiriusXM’s Lizzie Widhelm and Scott Walker. Both Widhelm and Walker
Read MoreLike Hollywood’s striking screenwriters, the outlet’s employees want protections against potentially job-killing automation.
Read MoreBrian Heater / TechCrunch: Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, who joined Amazon after the 2018 acquisition, sells the startup Honest Day’s Work to smart lock maker Latch and will become its CEO — Jamie Siminoff has been busy. The Ring founder quietly exited the advisor role he took back in March after exiting the brand’s CEO
Read MoreRichard Waters / Financial Times: Tech companies are racing to run generative AI natively on mobile devices to reduce computing costs, but face hurdles like limited memory and processing power — Tech companies seek processing power in handsets to reduce computing costs and improve speed of AI chatbots
Read MorePhoto by Win McNamee / Getty Images Kicking off a series of AI hearings Tuesday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) used a text-to-voice generator trained on hours of his speeches to deliver an opening statement before OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voiced urgency (or had a computer do it for them)
Read MoreJudith Bannermanquist / Cointelegraph: Crypto wallet company Ledger faces criticism after it unveiled an optional seed phrase recovery subscription service that some security experts say is insecure — Many members of the crypto community believe Ledger’s latest seed phrase recovery feature is a bad idea. — 362 Total views
Read MoreTesla Bots shown walking in front of a Cybertruck | Image: Tesla Tesla is showing off new footage of its Tesla Bots in what appears to be a production-ready chassis, now walking forward (slowly) without some of the stumbles we’d seen in their first reveal. The robots can also apparently do other things, like pick
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Today, we’re mixing it up a bit. First off, I have a post-Podcast Upfronts Q&A I conducted with SiriusXM’s Lizzie Widhelm and Scott Walker. Both Widhelm and Walker
Read MoreLearning Digital Signal Processing (DSP) techniques traditionally involves working through a good bit of mathematics and signal theory. To promote a hands-on approach, [Clyne] developed the DSP PAW (Portable All-in-one Workstation). DSP PAW hardware and software provide a complete learning environment for any computer where DSP algorithms can be entered as C++ code through an
Read MoreAbner Li / 9to5Google: Google updates its inactivity policy: accounts inactive for at least two years will be deleted, except for those with YouTube videos, starting in December 2023 — In 2020, Google said it would remove content stored in an inactive account (but not the account itself) to preserve storage space.
Read MoreAnd the act is called… “The Aristocrats!” One of the things I am most enjoying about machine learning is how it illustrates, quite neatly, that engineers don’t know how people work. Take the large language models, for instance. I have been told that they will take my job, rendering me unnecessary; that they are intelligent;
Read MoreChance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple touts $2B+ in App Store fraud prevented in 2022, including 3.9M stolen credit cards blocked, 147M+ ratings/reviews removed, 428K dev accounts terminated — Apple is out with a new press release today touting the success of the App Store’s ability to prevent fraud.
Read MorePhoto by DAVID PINTENS/BELGA/AFP via Getty Images Toxic chemicals linked to cancer and heart disease are disproportionately polluting water sources in Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in the US, a new study shows, providing new evidence of environmental impacts targeting communities of color. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as “forever chemicals” for their extreme
Read MoreWashington Post: The US announces charges, sanctions, and a $10M reward for info leading to the arrest of Russian national Mikhail Matveev, a Babuk ransomware campaign suspect — The Justice, Treasury and State departments announced a crackdown on global ransomware suspect Mikhail Matveev …
Read MoreThe brain is a rather important organ, and as such, nature has gone to great lengths to protect it. The skull provides physical protection against knocks and bumps, but there’s a lesser-known defense mechanism at work too: the blood-brain barrier. It’s responsible for keeping all the nasty stuff – like bacteria, viruses, and weird chemicals
Read MoreThe Apple Car continues to be something Apple is working on and a new patent suggests it has some big ideas.
Read MoreThe Wemo Smart Plug Mini V2’s security flaw will not be fixed. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Security researchers at Sternum report they’ve found an exploitable vulnerability in the Wemo Smart Plug Mini V2 (via 9to5Mac). The plug debuted in 2019, offering cross-platform compatibility with Apple HomeKit, Google Assistant, and Alexa.
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Microsoft is introducing some new features to Bing on mobile and desktop. Bing Chat will get a new home screen widget for Android and iOS. Microsoft is giving Edge on mobile contextual chat As the AI war rages on between Microsoft and Google, Microsoft is the latest to
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